For the first ever time doing Nano, I actually COMPLETED my story! I've "finished" the 50k every single time, but the stories have always been incomplete, unfinished. This year, I actually have a completed novel!
:D
ps. My real wordcount is finally up.
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50,807 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 05 24
Congratulations. That's wonderful that you did that in a month.
Mine wasn't even a novel... I started out writing a novel, but it didn't work, and about a fifth of the way through the word count, I just did what I did in '05 and wrote random autobiographical crap. It might not count as a novel, but it's what I wrote, and I won.
183,787 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 05 28
Thanks ^^ All my previous attempts were over 50k, but it's so satisfying to finally be able to say that I finished the whole thing.
But getting to 50k at all is still a damn big achievement!
50,004 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 13 16
Congrats again :)
Here is something to perhaps inspire you for next year : I'll laugh as your fingers fall off - only cos I'm mean.
My sister came in and woke me up this morning.
I'm allowed to be mean.
...
Anyway - Straw showed me that profile last night ... I think eyebrows were raised.
*headdesk* I don't really recall though - it was very late - or early I should say.
Anyway, Congrats again. :) And thanks for helping push me over the line.
xxLola
p.s. Have you been to slap the Northern Territories ML? lol
50,078 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 20 59
I really, really would like to know how you pulled off 183k. How many hours a day did you dedicate to writing?
183,787 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2007 - 21 15
I was experimenting this year with applying last year's word war theory: Only ever writing in 20 minute blocks, then taking breaks (usually ten minutes.) since IRC went so well with word wars for everyone, and I got so far, I guess it really does work well.
Edit: Just over 84 hours writing total (but there were break times on top of that.)
Spreadsheet for the month of time spent, etc:
50,607 / 50,000
Dec 1, 2007 - 17 11
That's one very cool spreadsheet, 1863.
(whistles respectfully in geekish admiration...)
183,787 / 50,000
Dec 1, 2007 - 21 59
I have a second one too, that goes by scene instead of day >.<